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In a way this was inspired by the results of the Hessian state elections this sunday.
Look at the distribution of seats iun the hessian state parliament in this article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessia...election,_2018
You will see something you will likely never ever ever ever see in the USA ... more than 2 parties represented in the parliament.
Why is this?
Simply said because germany (like almost all other western modern countries) has a proportional voting system.
Representations in the parliament are determined by the percentages of votes for the parties in the voting districts (well, it is a little bit more complicated because it is a mixed system,. but should be sufficient für this thread).
Lets say that germany had an american "winner takes all" voting system and the percentual distribution of seats would represent the percentage of votes (for the parties) in every single hessian voting district. In this case the parliamentary seat distribution would be all black,. because the CDU would have gained 100% of the seats (being the "winning party" in every voting district. With other words, the CDU would win 100% of the parliament despite only 27% of the cvoters voted for them.
But well, this was only a digression to the main point of my thread:
Lets say that in a parallel reality a bipartisan majority of congressmen sees the light that the US voting system is outdated and inherently unjust and wanted to change both, the federal, as well as the state level voting systems to a proportional voting system (instead of the current winner takes all systems across the voting districts)
(as I said, parallel reality ... I am aware that this never ever will happen in this reality, because neither republicans nor democrats would want to give third parties a chance the opportunity to really have a realistic chance in the elections
)
How complicated would that be ... what majorities in the federal congress/senate as well as those of the states would be necessary?
Look at the distribution of seats iun the hessian state parliament in this article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessia...election,_2018
You will see something you will likely never ever ever ever see in the USA ... more than 2 parties represented in the parliament.
Why is this?
Simply said because germany (like almost all other western modern countries) has a proportional voting system.
Representations in the parliament are determined by the percentages of votes for the parties in the voting districts (well, it is a little bit more complicated because it is a mixed system,. but should be sufficient für this thread).
Lets say that germany had an american "winner takes all" voting system and the percentual distribution of seats would represent the percentage of votes (for the parties) in every single hessian voting district. In this case the parliamentary seat distribution would be all black,. because the CDU would have gained 100% of the seats (being the "winning party" in every voting district. With other words, the CDU would win 100% of the parliament despite only 27% of the cvoters voted for them.
But well, this was only a digression to the main point of my thread:
Lets say that in a parallel reality a bipartisan majority of congressmen sees the light that the US voting system is outdated and inherently unjust and wanted to change both, the federal, as well as the state level voting systems to a proportional voting system (instead of the current winner takes all systems across the voting districts)
(as I said, parallel reality ... I am aware that this never ever will happen in this reality, because neither republicans nor democrats would want to give third parties a chance the opportunity to really have a realistic chance in the elections
)How complicated would that be ... what majorities in the federal congress/senate as well as those of the states would be necessary?
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